StBride Book launch: ‘How to Create Typefaces’

June 2017

The English translation of ‘How to Create Typefaces’ is hot off the press and Tipo e and St Bride helped cohost the packed-house release celebration at St Bride’s Library in London.

In June 2017, St Bride Library hosted the the book launch of How to Create Typefaces, the English translation of the book Cómo crear tipografías. It was an unprecedented evening in which the three authors, Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer, and José Scaglione, shared the stage and talked about their relation with this publication —although Cristóbal participation was via video. Elena Veguillas and Gerry Leonidas also participated in the event. St Bride was almost full in a particularly Latin night.

Elena Veguillas, from the publisher‘s team, opened the evening with an introduction about the publication of the Spanish edition and the complexities of a collaborative project. Gerry Leonidas, who has participated in the English translation by writing a foreword, reviewed the situation of type design education, in that after nearly two decades of worldwide contributions to practice, it is now seeing global contributions to education and discourse. The three authors added a personal perspective. Cristóbal Henestrosa, via video from Mexico, reflected on his own and personal relation with the publication. While José Scaglione offered a more general perspective on type and his own personal experience. José also offered a good piece of advice: ‘read this and every other book with a critical spirit, which is an essential condition of this profession.’ Laura closed the presentations with an overview of her work as a type designer and as a type educator. Both professions are intertwined and reflected in her writing in How to Create Typefaces.

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